Hey, I am new to this whole website and I am loving it and absorbing the information on here. We are from out of state so we are not from Texas. We have just been hunting in texas near junction on our friend's lease for the last 10 years and have fallen in love with it. Sold our business and decided to get a ranch near Rocksprings County Road 450. We have had it for about a year now and have made some major improvements. The ranch was previously owned by someone who just leased out the hunting and the neighbors tell us they just shot up the place. Killed every buck on it, they also had no water and didn't feed year-round. The other piece we picked up (right next to it) was owned by someone who didn't really have the funds to manage his place. So neither place had water or year round feed
So we have put about 12 feeders on the place, ordered some stands, got the well working again, (10 gallons AN HOUR), ran some poly pipe through the thing, created 4 water troughs and we are going down next week to add 3 more. We had a water surveryor come out and do some seizmic tests to find water and he did! This week I will update on how good the water is he found. He tested 4 spots and 3 had water so hopefully we can get a 8-10 gallons a minute like our neighbors. We only have seen about 3-4 good sized bucks so far this year. We would just like any information on how we can really improve the quality of our place. We have lots of river bottoms and mesquite bottoms.
We have noticed that they LOVE our protein feeders but not really hitting the corn feeders. Our feeders are DOMINATED with hogs, wondering if hog fence would make a big difference on deer quantity. I bet the place has around 70ish deer on the whole thing. We have seen alot of big axis bucks but we alwasy see them crossing a road and never on the corn feeders, they do hit the proteins. Any tips on hunting them?
What are some big changes we need to make to get a better deer density? How important is where you put your feeders? Whats a good desnity to shoot for? Any info would help.
Feel free to email me bradycooper2000@outlook.com
So we have put about 12 feeders on the place, ordered some stands, got the well working again, (10 gallons AN HOUR), ran some poly pipe through the thing, created 4 water troughs and we are going down next week to add 3 more. We had a water surveryor come out and do some seizmic tests to find water and he did! This week I will update on how good the water is he found. He tested 4 spots and 3 had water so hopefully we can get a 8-10 gallons a minute like our neighbors. We only have seen about 3-4 good sized bucks so far this year. We would just like any information on how we can really improve the quality of our place. We have lots of river bottoms and mesquite bottoms.
We have noticed that they LOVE our protein feeders but not really hitting the corn feeders. Our feeders are DOMINATED with hogs, wondering if hog fence would make a big difference on deer quantity. I bet the place has around 70ish deer on the whole thing. We have seen alot of big axis bucks but we alwasy see them crossing a road and never on the corn feeders, they do hit the proteins. Any tips on hunting them?
What are some big changes we need to make to get a better deer density? How important is where you put your feeders? Whats a good desnity to shoot for? Any info would help.
Feel free to email me bradycooper2000@outlook.com
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